Why is Node.js named Node.js? [closed]

Answer 1

Check out this article. From page 4:

Originally, Dahl called his project web.js. It was merely a webserver, an alternative to Apache and other "blocking" servers. But the project soon grew beyond his initial webserver library, expanding into a framework that could be used to build, well, almost anything. So he rechristened it node.js.

Answer 2

The official name is actually Node. Originally it was designed for use as a web application, but the author realized it could be used for more general purposes and renamed it to node.

Here is a quote from the author that may help explain the name:

Node is a single-threaded, single-process system which enforces shared-nothing design with OS process boundaries. It has rather good libraries for networking. I believe this to be a basis for designing very large distributed programs. The “nodes” need to be organized: given a communication protocol, told how to connect to each other. In the next couple months we are working on libraries for Node that allow these networks.

Answer 3

On wiki it says, that the project is called node, but to make sure it does not get mixed up with other "node", the .js was added to it